Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes

NY Post ^ | 3/9/19 | Isabel Vincent

[Roccus]

Can’t remember any arrest, but I’m old.

IIRC, once the tax evasion was made public he paid what was owed. Not sure if that included interest and penalties.

[CivilWarBrewing]

"The state slapped the company with a warrant on July 6, 2017, two months after Ocasio-Cortez announced her candidacy to run.."

Consider it just a qualification for Democrats running for high office.

[GnuThere]

Sounds fishy. Wouldn’t she have only been 22 back then - did she already know how to launder money?

[Deplorable American1776]

I'm surprised!!!

That she could read....

[Fiddlstix]

[Flaming Conservative]

I doubt it; the House just passed a resolution that they let Ilhan Omar turn into a anti-islamaphobia and racism card. Oh, yeah, and I guess they let anti-Semitism prohibition in there, too, but anybody with a brain knows you can’t be for Islam AND Israel.

[Alberta's Child]

Brook Avenue Press was a real company, and she really did start it. What I find most interesting is that she sounded like a capitalist back then when she was calling for tax breaks for new startups:

Daily Caller article on AOC's prior life as an entrepreneur

Here's my guess at what happened to derail her career path:

1. She graduated from Boston University with a degree that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

2. She really believed the nonsense they taught about changing the world and doing whatever she wanted to do.

3. So she started her own company (nothing wrong with that at all) and went around acting and sounding like a successful person in business -- even to the point where she was invited back to BU to give presentations on entrepreneurship.

4. It turns out she didn't have a clue about running a business, and some of the quotes here illustrate a comical naiveté that borders on delusion:

- "You see a huge return on your investment here. People pay $500 an hour for consulting that we get for free by the water cooler." ... Yes, that water cooler bullsh!t was worth exactly what she paid for it.

- "Don’t try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken." ... She obviously couldn't run her own business on clichés, but that didn't stop her from pretending she knew what the hell she was talking about.

5. After a few years of this she found herself with a failed business, a mountain of college debt, and a worthless college degree. She needed to put away her delusions and find a real job.

This is how this "entrepreneur" with a degree from Boston University ended up working as a bartender at the age of 28.

[ronnie raygun]

So, Al Sharpton still owes and he’s got a TV show

[GnuThere]

Interesting.
And these days she doesn’t know much more and is literally the mouthpiece for her radical chief of staff. Who eats hamburgers.
I’m surprised we don’t see puppet strings on top of her head.

[Retvet]

Taxes are for working people not the ruling elite. What Democrat or professional politician Republican has ever practiced what they as said. That’s why they’re never Trumpers. They feel the change coming. Term limits and government for the people by the people.

[Drew68]

This is how this "entrepreneur" with a degree from Boston University ended up working as a bartender at the age of 28.

Here's an interesting Twitter thread researching AOC's rise to power.

One excerpt:

"What's “Brand New Congress?” BNC is a group of Bernie Sanders staffers who got together, decided to make the 2018 midterms all about Bernie policies by taking his ideas & finding 400 Bernie carbon copies to dump into Congressional & other races, creating a 400 headed Bernie."

BNC is Saikat Chakrabarti and AOC so far is the most successful of the 400 heads.